Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low) (copy)

These are books intended for an older, more mature, audience (young adults). They feature themes and topics that are high interest for this age group while also being low readability (lower reading levels/Lexile Levels). It sets struggling older readers up for reading success. copied from /MyAccount/MyList/52947 - List: Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low)
 

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1. Alligator bayou

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Author:
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948-
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA NAPOLI
North Regional - Young Adult
YA NAPOLI
Southeast Regional - Young Adult
YA NAPOLI
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Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian family live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.

2. Loving vs. Virginia: a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case

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Author:
Powell, Patricia Hruby, 1951-
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA POWELL
Middlecreek Community - Young Adult
YA POWELL
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Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.